Bill Shorten on his random, oblique reference in the Epstein files

Today on Inside Politics, we welcome back former opposition leader Bill Shorten, who is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra. It's a timely moment to have Shorten on the podcast as he obliquely (very obliquely, we stress) came up in the Epstein files this week. Strangely, in the ma…

The Epstein files troubling Trump and who he’ll threaten next

Another tranche - amounting more than 3 million pages - of the Epstein files has been published. The US Department of Justice says this is the final drop, but there are reportedly millions of more pages being kept from view. So is there anything in them that hurts President Donald Trump? Today, …

Why our obsession with interest rates and cost of living is a problem

The Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate for the first time in two years yesterday, to 3.85 per cent. Exactly as mortgage holders have been fearing. But what if many of us are not actually in the cost-of-living crisis that we keep being told that we’re in? And that this new interest rate is comparati…

'A crazy week' ahead: Leadership spills and more Liberal defections

Can the Coalition reunite, after two weeks of political infighting? And will the Liberal and National parties’ leaders, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud, even keep their jobs, given the threats to their leadership that continue to play out, as this episode goes to air? These are only two of the po…

Forged via Facebook. The anti-vax parents faking child health records

"No jab no play” policy means unvaccinated children can’t be enrolled in childcare or preschool in most Australian jurisdictions. But some parents have found ways to evade those laws. According to an investigation by reporter Kayla Olaya, these parents are using Facebook groups to share the contac…

A funeral, secret plots, and 'wayward children' — another messy week for the Coalition

The drama between the Liberals and the Nationals continued this week with what seems to be a total breakdown in the relationship between Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud. Meanwhile, Ley's leadership remains in mortal peril, and in a plot twist, Littleproud faces his…

‘Numbers, numbers everywhere’: Interest rate rise likely, but what does it all mean?

Inflation has risen again, and the markets are already tipping interest rates are likely to increase next week in response. Today, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright explains what is driving the spike in inflation and what it says about where Australia’s economy is headed.

Beyond the Alex Pretti video: On the ground in Minneapolis

Two Americans have now been killed by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis in less than three weeks. Their families say they were sweet, passionate people who could not sit back and watch while masked men snatched members of their community off the streets. The US government, meanwhile, c…

Ken Dyers' Kenja: The cult still operating in Australia

She was given the pseudonym XC, by a court, to protect her identity. And she’s never spoken publicly about her experience. But the court documents from her case against Ken Dyers reveal a harrowing set of allegations. At the age of 14, she says that Dyers, the leader of the performing arts and soc…

The remarkable story of how Timor-Leste is tackling cervical cancer

More than 25 years ago, photojournalist Kate Geraghty travelled to Timor-Leste to document the struggles of the Timorese people as they wrestled back their independence from a decades-long, and often brutal, Indonesian occupation. Last year, Geraghty returned to Timor-Leste, with health editor Kat…